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ID: 500119011
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Record Type: Person
Safir, Otto (German engineer, born 1907, active in England and Canada)

Note: Diplomas in engineering from Berlin Technical University and Aix-la-Chapelle, 1929. Worked in Germany. Moved to Britain 1936. Various work until 1938; worked for Ove Arup, London, 1938-1944. Private practice, London, 1944-1949 (including work on prefabrication for ARCON). Moved to Vancouver 1949. Worked for Marwell Construction 1949-1951. Private practice, Vancouver, 1951. Retired 1971. Fellow of the British Institute of Structural Engineers from 1948; member of the American Concrete Institute from 1950. Registered P.Eng. 1949.

Names:
Safir, Otto (preferred,V,index)
Otto Safir (V,display)

Nationalities:
German (preferred)

Roles:
engineer (preferred)

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Frankfurt am Main (Hessen state, Germany) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   ca. 1929 - 1936  Germany (Europe) (nation)
active:   ca. 1929  France (Europe) (nation)
active:   1936-1949  London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)
active:   1949-1971  Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
employee of ....  Arup, Ove Nyquist  1938-1944
....................  (British architect and engineer, 1895-1988) [500018050]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Safir, Otto (I)

Biographies:
(German engineer, born 1907, active in England and Canada) ..... [VP Preferred]
(German, English and Canadian engineer; born Frankfurt-am-Main (German), 1907) ..... [CCA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Otto Safir ........ [CCA, VP]
......................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Safir, Otto ........ [CCA Preferred, VP Preferred]
........................  Liscombe, New Spirit: Modern Architecture (1997) 204

Subject: ........ [CCA, VP]
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Liscombe, New Spirit: Modern Architecture (1997) 204
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA, VP]
.......... Liscombe, New Spirit: Modern Architecture (1997)
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